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Blue Velvet (1986) poster
1986
global pct
76.8

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Blue Velvet

Scored from 534 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

76.8%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
74.4%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
95.8%
AI-adjusted percentile
534 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A college student returns to his hometown and discovers a severed human ear in a field, leading him to investigate a dark criminal underworld connected to a nightclub singer being held captive by a dangerous man.

David Lynch directed Blue Velvet, a mystery, drama and thriller film from 1986. It stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper. It runs 2h. It is rated R. It was made in the United States.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5,102 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 534 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 562 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

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Is Blue Velvet (1986) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers
534

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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